News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
Once posted, entries will be retained until they have taken place. If you would like your event included on this page, please contact
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Latest events . . .
SLSA events
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading: call for papers
Other events
The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture, University of Bristol
The Books That Made Me – with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge, British Academy, London, and online
Book Launch: Leading Works in Law and Anthropology, Humboldt University, Berlin, and online – this evening
Criminal Mind Research Network launch event, Nottingham Trent University
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago: registration open
Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case, University of Cambridge and online
Human Rights Litigation and Technology: The case against the Police High Command in Chile, online from Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, ARU
LSJ Annual Lecture: Everyday Ambassadors: Lessons from socio-legal studies for leadership in a fractured world, University of Leeds
2024
Book launch: The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland by Conor McCormick and Brice Dickson
Date: 18 November 2024
Venue: Royal Courts of Justice, Belfast
See website for details.
Political Prisoners in Russia and the Occupied Territories of Ukraine
Date: 18 November 2024
Venue: Montague Lecture Centre, Mile End Road, QMUL, London
See website for details.
Campaign for Social Science: Annual Sage Lecture – All change! 2024 – A year of elections
Date: 18 November 2024
Venue: Wimpole Street, London
Speaker: Hannah White OBE, Director and CEO of Institute for Government
See website for details.
Book Launch: Leading Works in Law and Anthropology, Humboldt University, Berlin, and online – this evening
Date: 18 November 2024, 6–8 PM CET
Venue: Law and Society Institute, Humboldt University, Berlin, and online
Speakers: Alice Margaria, Larissa Vetters, Susan Bibler-Coutin, Anne Griffiths, Nola Cammu, Sandrine Brachotte
To register, please send an email to
Next 100 Years's Fifth Heilbron Lecture
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: Art Workers' Guild, London
Speaker: Flora Page, Barrister
See website for details.
Book Symposium: Statehood as Political Community – International law and the Emergence of new states by Dr Alex Green
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland
Author: Dr Alex Green, York University
Discussants: Dr Conor Crummey, Dr Gurkan Capar and Dr Sahara Nankan
See website for details.
Free screening of ‘The Fight for Haiti' & live Q&A with Etant Dupain
Date: 19 November 2024
Venue: BLOC Cinema, QMUL
See website for details.
Researcher Reflexivity and Including ‘Outsider’ Researcher Perspectives
Date: 20 November 2024
Venue: online from the National Centre for Research Methods
See website for details.
Structural Vulnerability and International Human Rights Adjudication
Date: 21 November 2024
Venue: Edinburgh Law School
Speaker: Marisa Iglesias, Pompeu Fabra University
See website for details.
Seminar – Justice Beyond the Courts: Music, testimony, voice
Date: 22 November 2024
Venue: The Buttery, Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
Speakers: Carey Young (artist), Damian Gorman (poet), Rawz (poet), Naomi Waltham-Smith
See website for details.
Performance – Justice beyond the courts: Musical performance and discussion
Date: 22 November 2024
Venue: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
Performer: Sam Lee, folk singer and song collector
See website and Workshop Programme for details of this performance and discussion event. Registration is now open: see Workshop Booking form and Musical Performance Booking Form.
LSJ Annual Lecture: Everyday Ambassadors: Lessons from socio-legal studies for leadership in a fractured world
Date: 25 November 2024
Venue: Centre for Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds
Speaker: Professor Annelise Riles
See website for details.
How Child Protection Harms Refugees – and Others
Date: 25 November 2024
Venue: University of Oxford and online
Speaker: Hedi Viterbo
See website for details.
The Rule of (Environmental) Law?: Some reflections on the Aarhus Convention
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Áine Ryall, University College Cork
See website for details.
Resurgent Authoritarianism’s Challenge to Democracy’s Status as an International Norm
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Professor Brad R Roth, Wayne State University
Chair: Professor Colin Harvey, Queen’s University Belfast
See website for details.
Leverhulme Lecture: Wiitkaamaaganak – Adoption and the resurgence of Anishinaabe citizenship orders
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: University of Birmingham and online
Speaker: Dr Damien Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University
See website for details.
The History of Double Jeopardy & Criminal Jurisdiction
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
Speakers: Professor Peter Alldridge, QMUL, and Professor Ann Mumford, KCL
See website for details.
Women, Gender and Constitutionalism
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: Bentham House, UCL, London
See website for details.
The Kadi Litigation: Sanctions and the rule of law
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: King's College London
See website for details of this JUSTICE event.
The Future of International Climate Change Law and the Role of National and International Litigation
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: Strathclyde Law School and online
Speaker: Professor Francesco Sindico
See website for details.
Turning over a New Leaf: AI ethics in/through the archives, online from the National Archives
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: online from the National Archives
Speakers: Dr Eleanor Drage, Co-Director of the AI: Narratives and Justice Programme, and Dr Kerry McInerney, co-lead of the Global Politics of AI project
See website for details.
Book Launch: 'Voices in the Dark' by Sarah Rosenberg-Jansen
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: Barnard's Inn Hall, Holborn, London and online
In conversation with: Samer Abdelnour and Kirsten McConnachie
See website for details.
On Reliability and Sexual History Evidence
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: Edinburgh Law School
Speaker: Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group
See website for details of this Edinburgh Legal Theory Research Group.
Legal Design: New potentialities for law
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: Cavendish Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University
Speaker: Professor Michael Doherty
See website for details.
The Future of International Climate Change Law & The Role of National & International Litigation
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde
Speaker: Professor Francesco Sindico, University of Strathclyde
See website for details.
Book Discussion: Excusing Homicide (‘Crimes of Passion’, a case study)
Date: 28 November 2024
Venue: QMUL, London
Speaker/author: Adrian Howe, University of Melbourne
See website for details.
Borders of Exclusion: The power of visual counter-narratives in epistemic knowledge
Date: 27 November 2024
Venue: University of Sussex, Brighton
See website and announcement for details.
Gender Stereotyping in International Human Rights Law and Discourse
Date: 29 November 2024
Venue: University of Bologna, Italy
See announcement for details.
Legal History in Unexpected Places – registration now open
Date: 29 November 2024
Venue: online from the Open University
See website for details.
Beyond the Spectacle: Exploring the nexus of art, migration, and the law
Date: 29 November 2024
Venue: Cavendish Campus, University of Westminster
See website for details.
December
British Academy Global Perspectives Lecture
Date: 2 December 2024
Venue: British Academy, London
Speakers: Justice Prof Joel Ngugi of the Kenya Court of Appeal, Cardiff Visiting Leverhulme Professor, and Professor Tetyana Antsupova, British Academy Global Professor, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
Chair: Professor Ambreena Manji
This event is by invite only, please contact
The Local Injustice of Bankruptcy: Geographical variation in access to debt relief within England
Date: 2 December 2024
Venue: University of Oxford and online
Speaker: Joe Spooner
See website for details.
British Academy: ERC Consolidator Grant Webinar
Date: 2 December 2024
Venue: online from the British Academy
See website for details.
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Traning Courses 2024
Dates: December 2024
Venues: BIICL, Russell Square London and/or online
- Energy Law – 2–3 December (Hybrid)
- Law of the Sea – 4–5 December (Hybrid)
See announcement for further details.
Hidden Histories of the Pinochet Case
Date: 4 December 2024, 5.15pm
Venue: Room LG17, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and Online – Zoom
Speaker: Professor David Sugarman
Hosted by the Centres of English Legal History and Public Law. See website for details.
Stephen Livingstone Lecture 2024: Human rights heroes – to equality and beyond!
Date: 4 December 2024
Venue: Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Patrick Corrigan, Head of Nations and Regions and Northern Ireland Programme, Director of Amnesty International UK
See website for details.
The ‘Inconspicuous Impact’ of Feminist Pressure Through Law
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Dr Sharon Thompson (Cardiff University)
See website for details.
White Collar Crime – Challenges and Solutions
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: Derby University and online
See announcement for details. Registration now open: see invitation for details.
Technology and Social Justice
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: LegalTech and LTU, New Station Street, Leeds
Speaker: Dr Jessica Guth
See website for details.
Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation: webinar
Date: 5 December 2024
Venue: online (Microsoft Teams)
See announcement for details.
The Books That Made Me – with Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
Date: 5 December 2025
Venue: British Academy, London, and online
See website for details.
Heritage in War and Peace IV: Human rights perspectives through past, present and future
Dates: 5–6 December 2024
Venue: University of Strathclyde
See website for details.
Exploring Creative Research Methods in Socio-Legal Studies
Dates: 5–6 December 2024
Venue: La Trobe Campus, Melbourne, Australia
See announcement for details.
Common Law Forms in Civil Law Asia
Dates: 5–7 December 2024
Venue: Australian National University, Canberra
See announcement for details.
Second International Gender Studies In Turkey Conference
Dates: 7–8 December 2024
Venue: Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
See website for details.
Human Rights Litigation and Technology: The case against the Police High Command in Chilve
Date: 11 December 2024
Venue: online from Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion, Anglia Ruskin University
See poster and webpage for details.
Changes in Light: Premiere
Date: 9 December 2024
Venue: IALS, London
See website for details of this short film that focuses on the decolonising work of IALS.
Asian Law and Society Association Early Career/Junior Scholar Workshop
Date: 12 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
See announcement for details.
Law and Social Justice: Exploring intersections and innovations conference – call for papers
Date: 13 December 2024
Venue: online from Leeds Trinity University
See announcement for further details. Call closes: 29 November 2024.
(Re-) Drawing Borders: When and where was the United Kingdom?
Dates: 12–14 December 2024
Venue: Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
See invitation for details.
Asian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 13–14 December 2024
Venue: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Theme: Whose Law, Whose Voices? Constructing Legal Stories in Asia
See announcement for details.
2025
January
Commission on Legal Pluralism: The Transformative Power of Legal Pluralism?
Dates: 13–15 January 2025
Venue: Jakarta, Indonesia
See website for details.
The Geometry of Legal Thought
Date: 16 January 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL
See website for details.
North and South: Judicial cooperation between the United Kingdom and the Global South
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: University of Leicester and online
Speaker: President of the UK Supreme Court/the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Robert Reed, Lord Reed of Allermuir
See invitation for details.
Book Launch – Structural Injustice and the Law
Date: 20 January 2025
Venue: UCL Institute for Human Rights, London
See website for details.
Current Legal Problems: The social side of fair process
Date: 23 January 2025
Venue: UCL, Endsleigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Joe Tomlinson, University of York
See website for details.
DigiRights Project Final Conference – The digitalisation of defence rights: time for new perspectives … and directives?
Dates: 30–31 January 2025
Venue: KU Lueven, Belgium
See announcement for details.
February
World Conference on Qualitative Research
Dates: 4–6 February 2025, in person/11–13 February 2025, online
Venue: Kraków, Poland, and online
See website for details.
Accessibility and the Limits of the Equality Act 2010
Date: 6 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, Endlseigh Gardens, London
Speaker: Professor Anna Lawson, University of Leeds
Chair: Lady Tanni Grey-Thompson, House of Lords
See website for details.
2nd Conference of the Swiss Network for Law and Society
Dates: 10–12 February 2025
Venue: Institute of Social Anthropology, UniS, University of Bern, Switzerland
See website for details.
Transatlantic Perspectives on Legislating AI
Date: 10 February 2025
Venue: IALS, London
Speaker: Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
See website for details.
Not Just in Outer Space: A story of 'aliens' in nationality law
Date: 20 February 2025
Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws, London
Speaker: Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol)
See website for details.
March
The BSLC Inaugural Annual Janine Sargoni Memorial Lecture
Date: 5 March 2025
Venue: Wills Memorial Building, University of Bristol
Theme: Radical Lawyers? Rethinking the law and society canon
Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy
See website for details.
UK Immigration Legislation and a Hierarchy of Modern Slavery Victimhood
Date: 12 March 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Hull
Speaker: Dr Marija Jovanovic
See website for details.
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood: call for papers
Date: 19 March 2025
Venue: University of Reading and hybrid
See announcement for details. Call closes: 6 December 2024. This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition.
April
Symposium on Roger Cotterrell's Jurisprudence and Socio-Legal Studies
Date: 3 April 2025
Venue: QMUL, Mile End Road, London
See website for details.
SLSA Annual Conference 2025
Dates: 15–17 April 2025
Venue: University of Liverpool
See website for details.
May
Slavery’s Long Goodbye: A Wilberforce Institute Lecture
Date: 14 May 2025
Venue: Wilberforce Institute, Kingston upon Hull
Speaker: Professor Chris Evans, University of Wales
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop
Date: 21 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See website for details.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting
Dates: 22–25 May 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois, USA
See meeting details. Registration is now open.
Criminal Mind Research Network launch event
Date: 23 May 2025
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
See announcement for details.
June
Conference on Judicial Activism and Resistance in Eastern Europe and Beyond: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 June 2025
Venue: Institut d'études européennes, Université libre de Bruxelles
See website for details. Call closes: 25 January 2025.
Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care
Dates: 11–12 June 2025
Venue: IALS, Charles Clore House, Russell Square, London
See website and announcement for details. Call closes: 6 January 2025.
UK Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Health Conference: Opportunities, challenges and the vulnerabilities of health throughout the life course
Dates: 19–20 June 2025
Venue: University of Manchester
Speakers: Professor Amy T. Campbell, University of Illinois; Dr Nigel Stobbs, Queensland University of Technology; Dr John Stannard, Queen’s University Belfast
See announcement for details.